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Comment by SubiculumCode | Hacker News Reader

My parents finally have health insurance after ACA, so yeah, they ARE better off.

I recently worked in two restaurants. Everyone was part time because no one wanted to employ full time. No one had insurance.

On of my coworkers ended up in the hospital. She was taken on then dropped by 4 insurance companies, this was directly after she lost her military coverage.

She's 15k in debt working a job that pays $200/week.

I can toss a lot more stories back at you if you want.

Are you implying that she would have had insurance before the ACA? Before the ACA, you could get "cheap" insurance, but it was often a scam. I know because I discovered that the hard way. Pre-existing conditions are a thing.

Why didn’t your coworker enroll in a ACA program?

She was covered under military, then she was enrolled in ACA, then dropped multiple times.

How do does one get involuntarily booted from coverage provided by the ACA? Or did she voluntarily drop coverage? If the latter, that’s 100% on her, but if the former then that seems like it should be impossible and I’m very curious how it happened, that doesn’t make sense but then again neither does health insurance sometimes. :(

Could be that the plans or companies offering coverage in her region have changed from year to year? While I wouldn't call this being "dropped" others might.

Another possibility could be due to fraudulence during the application process?

But yeah, grabbing at straws here.

Pre-existing condition laws would have stopped this. Unless more info provided,I call FUD

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